LANSDOWNE WATER SUPPLY SCHEME.
THE PUMPING STATION, A DECIDED SUCCESS. The hydraulic rams erected st Lansdowne to pump water t.) the service reservoir for the Lansdowne water supply are quite up to the expectations of Mr engineer in charge of the works. After a few hours' working the service reservoir was on Saturday morning full and overflowing. The valve of the supply pipe was opened and the reticulation pipe 3 charged. A number of residents of Lansdowne and others visited the pumping station and reservoir on Saturday, and they all expressed their appreciation of the excellent manner in§|which the rams automatically drive the water to the service vuir. The height to which the water is raised above the rams is 141 feet; and the available fall at the ~aras for drive water is 23ft 6in. As announced at the last meeting of tha Mastarton County Council an official visit will be paid by Councillors to the pumping station, and reservoir on Wednesday next. The following is a short tion of the works: — The watar is drawn from the Rumahanga river by means of an infiltration chamber. This work and the head-iace fur a distance of some two miles are common to the Lansdowne suburh and the Opaki water j race system, and the cost was shared by the two districts named. At the J Loop Line the water for Lansdowne is divided from the common supply and is carried in an open channelfenced off from stock —t-j the lake at Maunsell's. Just below MaunseU's dam the power house is l icated. This house, which is constructed entirely of reinforced concrete, contains the three large hydraulic rams. A concrete channel leads the water' to an intake pit, and thence three ten-inch steel pipes, each 120 fept long, convey the drive-water to the rams. The town water is brought from the main race in a 9 inch concrete pipe to a clean water intake pit. adjoining the drive water intake, arid is carried from there to the pumping cistern in a 5-inch steel pipe 132 feet long. The principle of the rams may be described as double action. The ordinary race water supplies the motive powerto drive the clean water to thf service reservoir. The rising main is five inches in diameter and 800 yards long. No contact between the diive water and town water ia possible. This principle has been applied to many towi:s in botn the United States Jand Great Britain, but the present is the first intallation of the kind in New Zealand or Australia.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9650, 15 November 1909, Page 3
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426LANSDOWNE WATER SUPPLY SCHEME. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9650, 15 November 1909, Page 3
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